ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,167, issued on March 25, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).
"e-Pub creator" was invented by Rafeh Masood (Bartlett, Ill.), Gina Hoffmann (Geneva, Ill.) and Chhavi Saxena (Algonquin, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the preparation of electronic publications or "ePubs" that provide a rich multimedia experience to readers using any of a variety of user devices, without requiring those individuals wishing to prepare such ePubs to install proprietary client applications on the computing device used to prepare the ePubs, and without the need to download a large portion or all of th...